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Becerra v. Eastside Reservior Proj., et. al.
12/17/2020
for Reconsideration. On March 21 1997 due to the requirement that the Appeals Board act within sixty days Labor Code section 5909 we granted reconsideration in order to allow sufficient opportunity to study the issues in this case. We have completed our study and as explained below we will
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Study Finds Shrinking Proportion of Low-Back Claims
10/15/2018
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine or JOEM.
Study authors included Dr. Nimisha Kalia and Dr. Xuguang Grant Tao from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Dr. Edward Bernacki from the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.
Although the study
Category: News
Kodak Employees Participate in Obesity Study
06/06/2005
The University of Rochester Medical Center URMC has a 3 million grant to study ways to help prevent obesity by influencing people's dietary and activity habits at work.
Researchers call the study the first of its kind in Rochester and in upstate New York and any strategies or tools
Category: News
Study : Patient Choice Inferior in Many Ways
11/17/2005
A new study found that allowing injured workers to choose their physicians is more costly and offers few advantages to the patient.
Findings of the study "The Impact of Provider Choice on Workers' Compensation Costs and Outcomes" confirmed what California and Texas leaders knew when they
Category: News
Early Injury a Warning Sign for Multiple Claims, Study Finds
10/08/2019
of employment predicted multiple future injuries said the authors who included Drs. Xuguang Grant Tao and Edward Bernacki of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Their findings were published in this months edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental
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Board Votes 5% Public Employer Cut , Reviews Portfolio Loss
11/03/2008
calculations the retrospective rating program safety grant program Division of Safety and Hygiene programs managed care organization effectiveness and medical payment procedures handicap reimbursement and the impact of rates on frequency severity and loss ratios.
The study will conclude in December
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Work Stations Gain Attention as a Solution to Sitting
03/11/2016
Environmental Medicine.
The study by Grant Ognibene and colleagues included 46 university employees with low back pain who spent at least three-quarters of an eight-hour day sitting at a computer desk. The 23 workers who had access to a sit-stand work station had significant reductions in low back pain
Category: News
WSI Directors Call for Lawmakers to Increase Benefits in 2009
12/01/2008
living adjustments for those on permanent total disability.
WSI also touted the states position as having the lowest workers compensation premiums in the country as ranked in an Oregon study.
The latest biennial study by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has ranked North Dakota
Category: News
Executive Order Aims to Facilitate Use of Medical Cannabis for Certain Conditions
11/16/2022
use of medical cannabis.
Beshears executive order will grant a full complete and conditional pardon to anyone accused of cannabis possession on or after Jan. 1 2023 if certain conditions are met.
The order requires that the cannabis has been purchased legally in a jurisdiction that allows
Category: News
Fellowship Funds Research on Trucker Back Pain
05/30/2006
inaugural grant recipient of the new Medical Fellow Research Program. Wood's research will include performing a cross-sectional study of 200 commercial motor vehicle drivers from several large trucking firms to investigate risk factors for low back pain and impairment potentially related to treatment and
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